Though my first response was to say BS on thinking about it I actually believe them on this one. As the article points out they landed a few high profile event

Though my first response was to say BS on thinking about it I actually believe them on this one. As the article points out they landed a few high profile events which got a lot of people to install the plug in (albeit an earlier version than 2.0 which is the first worthwhile version imho) Don't get me wrong, I don't expect them to over take Flash any time soon. But I think this gives Microsoft Developers enough incentive to use Silverlight rather than jumping ship to Flash (which is much harder for a .net deverloper to pick up). In that aspect I think this is a victory. For better or worse the great thing about being Microsoft is you just need to hang on to what you already have to be successful